Re: Copy Oracle database to DB2/400

["Jeff Silberberg" <jsilberberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

            Sounds like a great justification for ERWin, even if you just
document all the relationships before the team dissolves and no one has a
clue.

        JMS..

----- Original Message -----
From: <David.X.Kahn@gsk.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: Copy Oracle database to DB2/400


> Unfortunately it's not going to happen. The group who look after the
legacy
> package have simply and categorically refused us access to the database.
> Instead they will provide flat file extracts of the data as and when we
> specify. The Oracle database apparently contains > 6,000 tables, and our
> demands on their time explaining how all these tables fitted together
would
> be excessive. Oh well, I suppose I can live with that although we cannot
be
> sure the extracts are full and correct until we reconcile the eventual JDE
> outputs back to those of the legacy system.
>
> Dave...
>
> "Achilles only had an Achilles' heel; I have a whole Achilles' body." -
> Woody Allen
>
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